This quick podcasts tells you why guest speakers are important and tells you how to find them! Rather than a one-day whole-school experience, guest speakers related to current class topics can be more powerful.

This is an explanation of how Registered Apprenticeships through the U.S. Department of Labor work.

Thirty Math and Science teachers attended a professional development day, and they tell us how they plan to integrate careers into their busy classrooms. The take-away? Simple ideas can build relevance and help students answer the ...

What is it like in an English class?What is it like if the writing projects are REAL?  Post a poem? Write a movie review?  Teaching to English Standards never was so fun! Hear many ways that 10 minutes of time yiel...

Working on School Improvement Plans! How can your school implement a plan for teachers to creating at least one career project for students? This podcast features a principal who is changing school climate by including career development in all...

Students love the job title of Crime Scene Investigator. This podcast features representatives from the police department giving students in a Physics classroom the chance to calculate information from an accident scene. Real world connections ...

These ideas are for all classrooms. Start small, keep it simple and look for ways to connect classroom learning with the world.

Can you list jobs mobilized with an earthquake? Hear how Career Pathways are used to modify any unit to include career connections! Meredith Dorow tells you how simple and useful it is.

Do you want to connect job titles with academic topics?  Meg Walton uses community contacts to point out the relevance of Social Studies. She shares how to make it easy! Guest speakers demonstrate how relationships matter!

How can someone get started earning money in cosmetology? Starting from renting a booth, being an employee or owning your own salon, this interview tells you how it works! 

He put one on the top of the Henderson Castle in Kalamazoo and installed some of the area's biggest projects. Find out how starting at 25 years old, this entrepreneur ran his own business selling and installing hot tubs, decks, saunas and other...

Listen to the skills needed and how someone can get started if they are interested in being a farmer!  Dreaming of growing produce and selling to the big grocery chains? Here's how one family figured how to pay the bills while offering Com...

How does someone get started opening a business after getting a degree? Find out about how money management and personal skills lead to success.